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I was thinking ibis from the long beak and legs as long as the body, but you may be right.

Happy Monkey Thursday Jul 13 01:55 PM

He's into extreme body modification.

Trilby Thursday Jul 13 02:14 PM

I'm am seriously contemplating becoming a vegetarian.

Seriously.

If I DO turn PETA on your asses it will be YOUR OWN FAULT!

capnhowdy Thursday Jul 13 02:25 PM

According to the full story link, that area is swarming with sicko animal abusers. Even players on the local ball team. Yikes.

grazzers Thursday Jul 13 02:48 PM

I got into archery last september and shoot for my university team, and enjoy it a lot, but I only use standard targets, why would you want to shoot animals? As this shot shows, its not nearly as humane as shooting the animal with a high accuracy rifle (which I still disapprove of, but at least the animal is dead before it can feel anything.)

No, I'm not vegetarian, but killing livestock for food is slightly different to shooting a bird for the fun of it.

Actually, this reminds me of something that happened to me a few decades ago.

I was a camp counselor in Pennsylvania. I had some free time, so I took my bow, which was a cheap fiberglass recurve that was still better than the camp ones, and went to the archery range.

The targets were set in front of hay bales. I was using a standard target point, a blunted cone. After shooting, I went to get the arrows out and found one had gone in all the way into the target up to it's fletching. Pulling the arrow out normally would have ruined the fletching, so I followed standard practice and walked around back to pull it out by the point.

I saw the point poking out of the hay bale and gave it a good yank. In less than a second, the snake that my arrow had shot through flopped out of the hay bale and onto my wrist.

I don't know exactly how loud I screamed, but I'm sure they heard me in the next state.

The snake was black and about a foot long. The arrow had gone through the skin about halfway down the body but pushed aside all of the organs. It was not poisonous, but it was pissed. I took it to the nature hut and they put it in a terrarium with some other snakes, which it ate.

"Hunt and partner Marilyn Camp have spent hours chasing the bird from tree to tree. They threw fish on the ground to lure it down, and twigs to rattle it off a perch. But the bird would simply climb to a higher branch or flutter away as they advanced.

"Workers from the Marine Science Center and Holly Hill police have also tried to no avail to rescue the ibis."

capnhowdy Monday Jul 17 10:02 PM

to hell with the arrow..... " here comes Mongo!"
I wonder if maybe they should just leave him alone.